Baha Quotes

• Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Age, Needs, Requirements

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Friendly, Faces

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Prosperity, Guiding Light

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• I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Order, Laughing, May

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• Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Too Much, Trouble

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• Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Comfort, Hardship, Ease

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• So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Teamwork, Powerful, Light

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi (pp. 287-289), 1935.

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• The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Peace, Unity, Unattainable

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• Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  War, Heart, Light

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• To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Real, Ignorance, Mean

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• If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Hatred, Division, Causes

  "Religious, Not Just Spiritual" by Laura Weinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, Deeds, Sincere

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• It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, World, Kind

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• Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Laughter, Laughing

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• O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Son, May

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• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Stars, Reflection, Light

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• The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System - the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Eye, Unique, Agency

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• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Age, Needs

  "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.

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• To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Religious, Peace

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace: Baha’i Inspiration Amidst Disunity" by Homa Sabet Tavangar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Educational, Men, Benefits

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• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Age, Problem

  "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.

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